Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1887-08-02
COMMERCIAL coMANcHEs.
A vnu 10 rur STOCK rscnaSor.

New lork E,enlnr San
The Exchange !, q stone building 90
Low that Il looks TO be the yourge,t
child Of one Of the big blocks in Wall
street. A narrow gallery At the ffon'
end Of the hall. IL much larger than Its
Wall stree, iron, indicates. The gallery
has two wooden ,e,,ses. on one Of which
"a, a poorly dressed old fossil. Who eomss
there daily. reads until nson. fishes
sandwich out Of his pocket. and. having
lunehed, goes away. There Is irsdi-
ton tina, he was once member OF The
Exchange.
Abou, twenty people stood leaning
ssains, the gallery railing ard gazing
down =, the crowd on the floor. On the
cas-, side Of the room arr high windows.
and the opposite side Is boarded up.
Behind these board. mechanics are max
ing alterations In the room. The
Sigh, board partition l. humane pro-
vision against their being made insane by
the veil. of,hs Comsrehss in the Exchange.
The ceiling Of the room Is blue. adorned
with dragon. and other decorative night.
mares. Three chandeliers. brisiline
with ineanducen, electric lights. are
ready for use on Black Friday or other
darn day.
A hundred men. and great nAsy
spruce boys in gray uniforms. are on the
door. Tie boys are attaches Of the ex.
change. The collars Of their coats are
adorned on either side with what looks
like brass baggage check. In elevated
broad cages At the cas-, aide Of the room
Telegraph operators are a, work. Near
the middle Of the hall i a pulpi, IN
which . calm, grAy.mus,sehtd man sits
reading. lie is Vice Chairman Henri
quss.
A large clock q, the further end Of the
long room indicates the hour Of 10.
Jus, a. the minute hand passed the wire
the men on the floor burs, into a combin'
ed. disoordant yell. Business had be-
gun. Somebody ,temtd TO have made
a foriune a, the frs, pop. aud gave
prolonged "wh.o-o.pW
Then young man with parted whi'k-
srs ,Ips..sd bis Joy by 'na,ehing CT the
hA, Of another member.
Large brszsn letters over the gallery.
reading FOUNDED MDCCNClL, indi'
Gated ihA, this kind u oondue, has been
going on ninety. five years.
Ragged down the room like banner.
In a sandiy.school are standards Labelled
"I.oan.." "l.ou and Nashville "rexa.
Pacific "Del.. lAekanwaLu. aud
wo,trn.' and Others. LOU" and
"Del." were apprently no, present.
Two l.dis. were In the gallery. and
several youns broker, struck killing
attitudes .hd gsz-i UP a. them. Such
brokers can start a grAven image on, Of
eounienArc,. several of them caught
sish, Of mi!d.manncftd man Ia tie gal.
lery whom they seemed 10 know. They
yllca' Gone down out Of that. Oh TO-
mso :" aud made faces a, him until be
urnsd very rcd In the face and lsfi the
tall.
The privilege o. standing on the Ex-
change hoor and making hie burden 10
,i.i or costs $50 900.
Then some 81 The brokers jsfked ch
the ,lcueh h.i II IN old man with White
chin whi.k,r,. Who vas holding up The
s'gn Labelled "Erir" The reporter. 49,
tsn.i0n was e,l,d by risky bfokef 10
ihl, vsnsf.bls mans bald bead, which
.,sm,d 90 blush with enb.u.ssmsni q,
| he inuo!ue,i1a. The old m.a reached
Mildly f0f his bet. 4 broker who. ike
death, love. a shining marx. aimed a
wad o. paper a, the Oh gtnilsmAn'' glos.
y Pon.
Til. Performance va. suddenly inter-
rup,sd Nv Z Wild yell from a crowd a,
the back end q the room. Oae nan
waved hi, hand Ia The aIf aud screamed
in treble voice. Another member shook
b. hand in this man's face and screamed
back. They seemed 10 Be on tie point
Of having a fight. A crowd gathered
around them snd joined Ia the riot. Il
was impo.ible 10 tell VIA, !, vi. all
about. There were no arrests, aud when
the row had subsidized the crowd had
melted away.
The banner marked "i.Oans" was the
mex, place who're tie reading Of the Rio,
Act seemed, 20 b. Necessary. Aerowdga,
cred there. and the noise from sounded
something like this "LAke Shore 500 :
-Four an half IIehyes! whoop. wh.e -
w. Five hundred Lake Shon! You will.
will you who-o-o-p"
One lunl,ic in this ,hrong sna,chsd =
new ,ilk Ia, from the curly head Of a
,houier and put biz own sofl hat In It's
place. The shouio contempiuously
hurled the sofi hat 10 the door. In re-
ltAliaiion hi. hs, was tossed across the
room. One Of the dspper grays caught
/, and hung Il up. Silk bats and button
hole bouquets Of red and purple flowers
are popular with the brokers, but the fru-
gal members wear .oi, hat. or hang their
tiles on reserved nails, and 20 bareheAd.
ed. when a man hasn't a ha, TO be
knocked off. bis dignifsd colleagues &c,
even with him by ,rrinhlins handful
Of bits Of white paper down the back Of
bis neck.
At ll.3O o'clock the harpipg. seury.
Ing Comarehss had kicked up such dust
on the floor that one Of the dspper
gray. .prinkled !, as veil as the boots Of
the brokers.
Here was another disturbance sbou,
neon in which a crowd yelled Lack.
awanna and something ,hs, sounds
like "Poliec - Members held notebooks
high in the air and waved them. Occas.
ion.lly a shou,er would make an entry in
his book. A young man, with wsvy